sail to me

i remember buying this disc so many years ago that really it leaves me wondering "what one earth",

but time flies when . . . . anyhow i heard it in my head yesterday and thought i'd have a look see on youtube and sure enough there it was.

what really caught my attention though is the number of hits it has -

over a million and a half.

now i know that "this mortal coil" were sort of well-known and this particular song did very well, but not that much . . . and then i noticed a reference in a comment to "the lovely bones" and thought "ah ha!"

it was rediscovered and dropped on a soundtrack. i've not seen the film.

the book is on one of my many little lists to be read at some point.

for now though i am having memories of a time a very long time ago in my life when i lived in a one bedroom apartment in toronto and this was a song that made its way frequently onto the turntable.

the words to song to the siren:

on the floating, shapeless oceans

i did all my best to smile

'til your singing eyes and fingers

drew me loving into your eyes.

and you sang "sail to me, sail to me;

let me enfold you."

here i am, here i am waiting to hold you.

did i dream you dreamed about me?

were you here when i was full sail?

now my foolish boat is leaning, broken love lost on your rocks.

for you sang, "touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow."

oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow.

i'm as puzzled as a newborn child.

i'm as riddled as the tide.

should i stand amid the breakers?

or shall i lie with death my bride?

hear me sing: "swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you."

"here i am. here i am, waiting to hold you."